The arrangement between the two empire Interactive affiliates, will allow all Solid Ice Hockey owners to receive unlimited access, for one full year, to all the hockey news on NETSport's Internet site. Each issue is packed with news from every team, including updated roosters, game summaries, previews, player interviews, contests and more. Now, all the hockey news a fan could want is just a mouse click away.

Solid Ice Hockey, is pulse pounding hockey action where gamers may go head to head with the superstars of the NHLPA. Strategy First's debut title has it all: bone-jarring body checks, bullet-like slapshots, great glove saves and spectacular goals. It's hard hitting hockey packed with customizing features found nowhere else.

Strategy First is a Montreal-based entertainment software developer that is scheduled to release its first title, Solid Ice Hockey, in September. Future titles also include Extreme Street Hockey, scheduled for release in January, 1997.

NETSport is a Georgia-based Internet development firm, founded in January, 1996 by Lyle W. Pote. Currently, NETSport has over 20,000 weekly readers of it's Internet Pro Football Edition and projecting their Pro Hockey Edition to garner a similar number of subscribers. NETSport staffs over 50 reporters, editors and photo journalists who are actual fans of the teams they report on to give sports enthusiasts all the latest information on their favorite teams.

Established in 1985, empire Interactive is a worldwide interactive entertainment company whose top games include The Civil War: 1861 - 1864 and Dawn Patrol. Upcoming titles include Flying Corps and Mig Alley. empire Interactive also distributes the award-winning Battleground series from TalonSoft, Inc, a Maryland based CD-ROM entertainment publisher and Terry Bradshaw Fantasy Football by FSPI, the nation's leader in the field of fantasy sports league administration software.

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